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Men out earn women across every generation, with the largest gender pay gap appearing between the ages of 55 and 64, a new report has found.

Men aged 55 to 64 earn on average 31.9 percent more than women, or around $40,000 per year, data from the Federal Government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency's report, published today, showed.

The data showed women earn around $255 per week less than men, or around $22,800 per year.  

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If the current data trends continue, millennial women currently in the workforce will earn just 70 per cent of men's earnings by the time they reach age 45, the report found.

Less than 50 per cent of women in all age brackets work full-time. 

This means that women are missing out on management roles and the higher salaries they command.

In all age groups, more than 90 per cent of managers were working full-time, the data showed.

Men over the age of 55 are twice as likely to be in management than women.

For the women who have made it to managerial ranks at the same age, two-thirds are in lower-tiered management ranks.

Even women who have reached senior executive and CEO roles at age 55 and over still face a large earnings gap, taking home about $93,000 per year less on average than their male senior executive and CEO counterparts.

"Too many employers are missing a huge talent pool by not encouraging and enabling women to work additional hours or in the managerial ranks," WGEA Director, Mary Wooldridge, said.

"With effective policies, workplaces can both enable women to work full-time if they chose to and make higher-paid managerial roles more accessible for those who work part-time."

Wooldridge added that workplaces must enable progression opportunities for part time workers.

"Our research with McKinsey and the Business Council of Australia shows that on average, companies with more part time managers have more women at executive levels," she said.

"Leading employers are creating or redesigning roles to support part-time management and job sharing structures, for example to make it possible for parents who may want to work school hours.

"In times of a tight talent market, attracting and retain highly skilled and capable women is more important than ever."

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A young boy remains in a serious condition with spinal and head injuries after falling 20 to 30 metres down a south-east Queensland mountain yesterday afternoon.

Paramedics and an RACQ Lifeflight helicopter were called to Table Top Mountain in Toowoomba around 4.45pm yesterday after the primary school-aged child fell down a rocky embankment.

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RACQ Lifeflight crews flew the rescue helicopter to the mountain in an attempt to rescue the child while Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics and fire and rescue crews climbed the mountain on foot.

"At last light, the crew of the rescue chopper winched the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue Critical Care Doctor and QAS Flight Paramedic down to the scene," an RACQ LifeFlight spokesperson said.

The boy was treated for head and spinal injuries by paramedics and the aeromedical team.

Once the young boy was stabilised, he was winched on a stretcher to the rescue helicopter and taken to Queensland Children's Hospital in Brisbane.

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The poorest and most vulnerable people will be hardest hit by the overturning of the US's landmark ruling of abortion rights, Australian experts are warning in the wake of the move.

Dr Ronli Sifris, who is Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and a law lecturer at Monash University, has spoken out about the "immediate and devastating" impact the end to the constitutional protections for abortion will have.

"This decision will disproportionately affect the poorest and most vulnerable who are unable to travel to more liberal states to access abortion services," Sifris said.

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She said that as a consequence, the United States would see a "regression back to the times of backyard abortions".

"Women shouldn't have to place their health or lives at risk to access what the World Health Organisation describes as one of the safest medical procedures," Sifris said.

"Abortion is a human rights issue and shouldn't be recast as a states rights issue."

Dr Shelly Makleff, Global and Women's Health and Monash School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Research Fellow, agreed "the most vulnerable communities will be disproportionately affected".

She said the ruling signalled "a massive setback".

"The right to a critical health service is being taken away, with dire implications," Makleff said.

"Unlike the time before Roe, we now have medical abortion as a safe option for self-management of abortion. The risks for abortion seekers will increasingly be legal in nature in states that have criminalised abortion."

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A Queensland man has been hospitalised after he was allegedly kidnapped, assaulted and forced to make ATM withdrawals from his account before being left on the side of the road.

Police allege three men and a woman approached the 21-year-old man in Morayfield, north of Brisbane on June 17 where he agreed to drive the four people to another address.

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"Police will further allege that shortly after arriving, the 21-year-old man was assaulted multiple times, threatened with a knife and forced into his vehicle by the group," a QPS spokesperson said.

"It will be further alleged the victim continued to be physically assaulted and held against his will by the group while they drove the vehicle to several locations from Caboolture to Tara."

Police said the man was driven to an ATM machine in his stolen vehicle and forced to withdraw money from his bank account.

He was found by residents on the side of the road in Tara, four hours drive west of Morayfield, around 10.30am the next morning,

The man was taken to hospital where he was treated for facial injuries.

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Police confirmed the man and his alleged assailants were all known to each other.

The 21-year-old's stolen Toyota Camry Sedan was located in Southport, on the Gold Coast June 19 following investigations.

The four people involved were then located and charged by police.

A 39-year-old Brisbane man, 38-year-old man, 29-year-old man and 21-year-old Brisbane woman have all been charged with assault, robbery and kidnapping with intent of torture and ransom.

They will appear in Brisbane and Dalby courthouses in July and August.

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